Comments on: Chicago’s Bloomingdale Rail Line to Be a Park in the Skyhttp://inhabitat.com/chicago%e2%80%99s-high-line-park-in-the-sky/
Green design & eco innovation for a better worldTue, 31 Mar 2015 17:05:17 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1By: bolivar13http://inhabitat.com/chicago%e2%80%99s-high-line-park-in-the-sky/comment-page-1/#comment-199271
Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:53:45 +0000http://www.inhabitat.com/?p=69111#comment-199271It’s a little hard to see what’s going to go on in the ross barney proposal but I like the theme and mission statement. It seems much more grounded in reality. Also, to correct the original article – this train line in no way goes downtown let alone into the “heart” of downtown. It’s well north of downtown and goes east-west.
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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:34:43 +0000http://www.inhabitat.com/?p=69111#comment-198940The Bloomingdale is indeed to become a park in the sky, but the Gensler/4240 proposal won’t be going foward, Ross Barney’s proposal will, though. Check it out here http://www.rbjarchitects.com/
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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:16:29 +0000http://www.inhabitat.com/?p=69111#comment-198927I didn’t mention I like the drawings and the space under the croquet hoops.
]]>By: dr mobiushttp://inhabitat.com/chicago%e2%80%99s-high-line-park-in-the-sky/comment-page-1/#comment-198926
Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:14:22 +0000http://www.inhabitat.com/?p=69111#comment-198926Between this project and the vertical skyscraper farms, it’s increasingly clear that much of the green architecture movement has devolved into trendy fashion statements that are divorced from reality.

An electrolysis-based hydrogenerator fueled by solar cells in Chicago? It’s solar exposure is quite weak. This idea takes half of the small amount of energy you can harness and immediately throws it away. As well-intentioned as it is-this is a stupid idea.

While we’re at it, think about urban agriculture on a 3 mile long, 50 foot wide strip of land, floating 20 feet above the ground. Not the romantic idea of agriculture, but the actual practice of it (assume organic )including the soils, soil amendments, planting, netting, weeding, harvesting: all of these things. Hard enough with a central staging hub, with a circle of land around you. But this shape? With people biking and walking through it? Once again, quite stupid.

I have an idea! How about using the solar power you get from the park for electricity, and using attractive native plants. Forget it . It’s actually been done before (because it is practical)

This is a science fiction, frivolous proposal. If they’re going to go there, why not say that this park will triple as a anti-matter generator, the bottom of a space elevator, and the aquaculture center of the world.